OKUBO Shohei

オオクボショウヘイ | OKUBO Shohei

Affiliation and department：
Job title： Lecturer/Associate Professor
Homepage URL (1)： https://www.econ.ryukoku.ac.jp/teacher/okubo.html

Research field (3)： History - General , Economic history , History - Asia/Africa

Research keywords (12)： Smuggling , Public morality , Revenue farming , Historical GIS , Dutch East Indies , Batavia , Opium trade, distribution, consumption , Dutch East India Company , Urban History , Economic History , Southeast Asian History , Maritime Asian History

Research theme for competitive and other funds (6)：

2024 - 2026 The Development and Transformation of Asian Maritime Trade during the 18th and Early 19th Centuries: Commodity Chains and Trade Settlment of Opium
2024 - 2025 Transformation of Asian Maritime Trade and the New Entry of American Merchants from the Late 18th Century to the Early 19th Century
2020 - 2021 Opium Consumption and Morality: Colonial Governance in Early Nineteenth-Century Southeast Asia
2017 - 2020 South Asian Products in Trade, Distribution and Consumption in the Eighteenth Century of Malay-Indonesian Archipelago
2015 - 2018 A Study of Urban History in India

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Papers (9)：

Shohei Okubo. Unpublished Ph.D thesis written in Japanese, "Opium Trade of the Dutch East India Company: Commodity Chains, Commercial Interests, Consumption and Regulation". The University of Tokyo, the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology. 2024
Shohei Okubo. (In Japanese)Opium Trade in Early Modern Maritime Asia and Societies in Java: A New Phase in the History of Human-Opium Relations. Hikakubunmei. 2023. 39. 39-54
Shohei Okubo. Markets and Competition: Opium Trade in the Malay-Indonesian Archipelago from the Late Seventeenth to the Early Eighteenth Century. in: Radhika Seshan and Ryuto Shimada (eds.), Connecting the Indian Ocean World: Across Sea and Land(Routledge). 2023. 11-34
Shohei Okubo. An Armenian Opium Revenue Farmer in Java: His Business Partnerships with British and Chinese Entrepreneurs under the Dutch Colonial Regime, ca. 1820-1835. Acta Asiatica: Bulletin of the Institute of Eastern Culture. 2022. 123. 67-85
Shohei Okubo. (In Japanese)Opium Problems in the Dutch East Indies and British Malaya. 2021. 32-51

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MISC (10)：

≪Book Review≫ アンソニー・リード著、太田淳・長田紀之監訳『世界史のなかの東南アジアー歴史を変える交差路』(名古屋大学出版会、2021年). 2022. 131. 11. 110-111
Shohei Okubo. ≪Column≫世界の記憶「オランダ東インド会社文書」と歴史研究. 2022. 59-60
大久保翔平. インド産アヘンの消費とモラルー19世紀初頭の東南アジアにおける植民地統治をめぐって. 研究報告書三島海雲記念財団 [編]. 2021. 58. 1-3
Shohei Okubo. 【Column】18世紀以前のアジアにおけるアヘン. 2021. 52-55
Shohei OKUBO. Opium Den in Batavia’s Environs during the Late Eighteenth Century: Society, Public Order, and Control in the Transition Period into the Colonial Regime. 東南アジア学会会報. 2021. 114. 23-24

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Books (2)：

Connecting the Indian Ocean World: Across Sea and Land
Routledge 2023 ISBN:9781032439297
アヘンからよむアジア史(アジア遊学260)
勉誠出版 2021 ISBN:9784585325062

Lectures and oral presentations (28)：

Monsoon Rhythms and Opium Chains: The Seasonal Dynamics of the Dutch East India Company's Trade during the Early 18th Century
(The 9th IMHA International Congress of Maritime History, Korea Maritime & Ocean University, Busan, Korea 2024)
植⺠都市バタヴィアにおける複層的なアヘン貿易利害の構造: 18 世紀アジア海上貿易の変容をめぐって
(国際商業史研究会、龍谷大学深草キャンパス 2024)
Reconstructing a Multi-Ethnic Coexistence: Resilience and Colonial Governance in Batavia after the 1740 Chinese Massacre
(AAS-in-Asia 2024, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia 2024)
Seeking the Opium Distribution System during the Colonial Rule of Java from the End of the 18th Century to the Beginning of the 19th Century
(The 93rd Annual Conference of the Socio-Economic History Society, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan 2024)
Resilience and Colonial Governance: Reconstructing a Multiethnic Coexistence in Batavia after the 1740 Chinese Massacre
(International Workshop on Tolerance and Intolerance in the Early Modern World, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan 2024)

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Education (4)：

2017 - 2021 The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology Ph.D. Student in Asian History
2015 - 2017 The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology MA in Asian History
2010 - 2015 Keio University Faculty of Humanities BA in Western History
2012 - 2013 Erasmus University Rotterdam Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, Exchange Student

Professional career (2)：

MA in History (The University of Tokyo)
Ph.D (The University of Tokyo)

Work history (12)：

2024/04 - 現在 Ryukoku University Faculty of Economics, Department of International Economics Lecturer/Associate Professor
2021/04 - 2024/03 The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, Department of Asian History Part-time Academic Affairs Staff
2020/04 - 2020/07 The University of Tokyo Faculty of Letters
2017/04 - 2020/03 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Fellow
2019/09 - 2020/02 Leiden University Faculty of Humanities, Institute for History Visiting researcher

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Committee career (1)：

2023/01 - 環インド洋世界史研究会幹事

Awards (2)：

2022/04 - The Socio-Economic History Society The Socio-Economic History Society Award "The Dutch East India Company and the Opium Society during the Middle of the Eighteenth Century: The Creation of Opium Privilege by the High Government at Batavia"
2017/05 - Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO) Repayment Exemption for Students with Excellent Grades -FY 2016-, Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO) Type I (interest-free) scholarship [Exemption of all of loan]

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